The Yalta Conference's Implications for the Future

At Yalta in 1945, the Big Three formalized plans for occupation zones in Germany. Stalin, above right, also agreed to join the U.N..

No doubt about itthe
Russians were changing. At Yalta, as at earlier conferences, Stalin and
other Soviet bigwigs shed a little more of their personal isolation.

Stalin mugged the cameras, patently loved to show off his fine grey
uniforms. His stock of English phrases had grown: "So what?" and "You
said it" had been added to "The toilet is over there!" and "What the
hell goes on here?" Now one of his problems is the ingrained aloofness
of Politburo men and others in the Soviet hierarchy who feel that
Russia is having too...